Creating Website for Palm Securities
Status: 
Time needed:
A week
Step:
1
We have received a request from one of our sponsors, Palm Security Services, asking if we can find someone to volunteer to develop a website for them for free and they would submit Ksh.10,000 towards our teachers salaries.
We wish to ask all Nabuur members if there was someone who would make this website for our sponsor and thus help us to pay our teachers' salaries.
Palm Security Services has talked with Rev. Wasike about how the project could work and they have written the following:
Palm Security Services Role
* provide photos
* provide information/content
* submit ksh. fee to teachers for salaries in cbsm school
* after design look for hosting firm or negotiate with designer about hosting possibilities separate cost budgeted for this
* receive designed website on soft copy e.g CD
Web designer role
* receive photos
* receive information
* design web site
* negotiate hosting fee with palm security or send/provide website files to palm security to look for hosting firm.
PALM SECURITY SERVICES
* small medium security firm
* it is young and up coming
* head office at Nairobi with a few small branches in other areas
* deals in guarding services among others
nature of website
* wish to have website that sells their product
* a flexible one that can enable them change any data and put current one.
* web name: www.palmguard.com
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lilalia
Hi Lia,
A few thoughts:
- An easy to update site is most easily built on top of a CMS (Content Management System), which then allows the administrator to edit all content.
- The chosen CMS (Wordpress, Joomla, ... ) would have to be installed on the domain server, on top of which the pages could then be 'built'
- The site can also be built on a 'free sites domain', i.e Yola.com, sites.google.com . In that case it would be best if Palm Securities creates an account themselves - then gets help creating the site. I haven't looked up if any domain name can be linked to a Yola site, but guess it would be possible.
- A soft copy site would either be HTML (which is not so easy to update/change) or be a copy of the site created on a CMS, but in that case requires some tech knowledge before it can be installed on the chosen domain. Looking at the reward (90 euro to be gained) this last option is probably too much work.
Pelle
I train young people in Netherlands, in order to have benefit of information systems.
I am not going to make time to actually built for Palm.
And I liked Pelle's thought:
"- An easy to update site is most easily built on top of a CMS (Content Management System)"
In fact I am convinced use of Content Management System is only working solution.
Pelle is describing clear for me what the advantages of a CMS are.
And I am convinced that to make it work it is far way best to stick to the basis fuctions of the CMS which will be chosen. (Choosing a CMS is complex as there are 100's -on http://cmsmatrix.org one gets puzzled of all the available CMS's).
Every attempt to start building a site from scratch using e.g. HTML will lead to a site which is difficult to maintain (as Pelle is stating)
My thoughts:
1. Low budget? Apply basic functionality. Take a CMS with basic functonality fulfilling Palm needs. If Palm needs are too specific, simplify Palm needs.
2. I am a fan of CMS Drupal. Because Drupal is of good quality. Nabuur.com is using Drupal, other user listed at http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites.
P.S.
A very basic Drupal application found on nabuur.com I found:
http://bugembe.org/
It is wise to start from standard, basic, because maintenance is good.
For myself I am using this basic standard Drupal-installation too, like:
http://drupaltent.learnopensource.net/
And my project where I spent all my free time (in dutch language): http://gera.be/
I recommend Drupal since quality is good. And a Drupal-site can grow to something like (but this site was build which much more resources!) http://www.whitehouse.gov/
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information systems add value, when visitors see structure - so make a simple structure
I am new here, but wanted to ask a few questions regarding the website.
The company which get's the website is giving 10.000 Kenyan Shillings. This is less than 100 Euros. Is this right?
This is a Comercial Company(Palm Security Service)? Or is it a NGO?
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Dietmar Stefitz
www.stefitz.tel
Dear all
Iam happy for your contributions over this matter.I have learnt a lot out of your comments and wish to learn more.Palm security services is a private company and our relationship with them has been good for some time.They have been our stop over for urgent needs .last month's salary was short of ksh.10,000/= We approached palm security to come in and help.They accepted and said the money available is what was meant or budgeted for designing a website.Hence they said they are willing to.only if we look for a volunteer who can do the design and they pay the salaries for us.For sure 10,000/= is the money CBSM asked for not what they offered.
Your communications have made me develop interest in knowing or understanding ,an average cost of a website design and also what would have been the budget for design the web site by Palm security.I would wish to actually get back to the management of Palm security services and ask clarifications but wish to be equipped first with information about average cost of web design.For sure ,I know palm security shall co-operate.
Please any body knowing average cost of designing the web?
rev wasike
The bottom-line is - Palm Security is a 'for-profit' company and want their website to be made by a neighbour on nabuur, at a fraction of the expenses they would otherwise incur through a professional web-designer in the open market.
Vijai
Dear Vijai,
From a certain perspective, it is true what you say. But, from the perspective of Rev. Wasike, he was trying to find the means of helping Palm Securities, so they can also help CBSM. Palm Securities have continuously and faithfully helped CBSM over the last years and this was a way Rev. Wasike was hoping to help pay back.
Thanks,
Lia
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lilalia